Ecotopia Biketour 2015 – Ecotopia Biketour

A thank you note

Ecotopia Biketour 2015 octombrie 19, 2015 October 19, 2015

This is a lengthy goodbye letter that I hadn’t had time to write before I left the tour and a thank you note that has been brewing in my head for the last two months and now it has turned into an emotional account of how I felt during and after the bike tour. I didn’t get enough of Ecotopia goodness and the regret over the fact that I could have stayed longer and didn’t, still haunts me. I have no photos to accompany the text but following Charlie’s blog post I’ll attach a song too – one that’s way…

Photogallery – Oslo to Stockholm /edition 4/

Ecotopia Biketour 2015 septembrie 2, 2015 September 2, 2015

Photogallery – Oslo to Stockholm /edition 3/

Ecotopia Biketour 2015 septembrie 2, 2015 September 2, 2015

Photogallery – Oslo to Stockholm /edition 2/

Ecotopia Biketour 2015 septembrie 2, 2015 September 2, 2015

Photogallery – Oslo to Stockholm /edition 1/

Ecotopia Biketour 2015 septembrie 2, 2015 September 2, 2015

Alingsås transition initiative

Ecotopia Biketour 2015 iulie 26, 2015 September 2, 2015

Din păcate acest articol este disponibil doar în English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The end of July is approaching, and the biketour 2015 has been on the road for about 6 weeks already! This weekend we have been staying at a private family farm near Alingsås, south-central Sweden (http://ostangsgard.se/) This family moved from a nearby town to the countryside 8 months ago, and bought a farm. Their farm is part of the transitive initiatives network (http://alingsås.omställning.net/) – a network…

Jönköping – hot showers, chocolate cake, and other bike tourers

Ecotopia Biketour 2015 iulie 26, 2015 September 2, 2015

Din păcate acest articol este disponibil doar în English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The road into Jönköping was one giant downhill, and at the bottom we arrived at the kulturhuset (http://kulturhusetjonkoping.se/). We were warmly welcomed with hot coffee (and hot showers!) and shown to our sleeping place for the next three nights, a studio room with wall mirrors. And the whole building was quite huge! When we were shown the sleeping room, there were two other bike tourers already…

Uddebo

Ecotopia Biketour 2015 iulie 26, 2015 September 2, 2015

Din păcate acest articol este disponibil doar în English. For the sake of viewer convenience, the content is shown below in the alternative language. You may click the link to switch the active language. The first stop after Göteborg was the small village of Uddebo (http://uddebo.se/), home to around 300 people. A few years ago this small village was given new life when people from the city seeking alternative ways of living moved there, buying previously empty houses, fixing them up, and giving them new life. Since then, the village has grouped together more to start work on restoring a…